{"id":2305,"date":"2011-02-09T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2011-02-09T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:35:00","slug":"compatible_quotes_on_language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/02\/compatible_quotes_on_language\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: On Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Language is the dress of thought<\/em>.&#151;Samuel Johnson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one&#8217;s real and one&#8217;s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.<\/em>&#151;George Orwell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Language is the light of the mind.<\/em>&#151;John Stuart Mill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.<\/em>&#151;Elizabeth Bowen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.<\/em>&#151;Lewis Thomas<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.<\/em>&#151;Tom Lehrer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language is the dress of thought.&#151;Samuel Johnson The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one&#8217;s real and one&#8217;s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.&#151;George Orwell Language is the light of the mind.&#151;John Stuart Mill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}